Pakhtakor FC
Pakhtakor Football Club (Uzbek: Paxtakor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club, based in the capital city of Tashkent, that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Pakhtakor literally means "cotton-grower" in English.
| Full name | Pakhtakor Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Uzbek: Paxtakorlar (The cotton grower) Uzbek: Sherlar (The Lions) Uzbek: Xalq jamoasi (People's team) | ||
| Founded | 8 April 1956 | ||
| Ground | Pakhtakor Central Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 35,000 | ||
| President | Bobur Shodiev | ||
| Manager | Maksim Shatskikh | ||
| League | Uzbekistan Super League | ||
| 2023 | Uzbekistan Super League, 1st of 14 (champions) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Pakhtakor was the only Uzbek club to play in the top-level Soviet football league and the only Central Asian club to appear in a Soviet Cup final. Playing in the Uzbek League since 1992, the club has been the undisputed powerhouse in Uzbekistan since the fall of the Soviet Union, winning fourteen Uzbek League titles, including six in a row from 2002 to 2007. Pakhtakor also won seven consecutive domestic cups between 2001 and 2007, winning eleven cups in total. Players for the club have won Uzbek footballer of the Year honours eight times, and Pakhtakor teammates swept the top three spots in 2002. Club managers have been named Uzbek coach of the year twice.
The team is also a perennial competitor in the AFC Champions League, having reached the semi-finals of the competition twice in 2003 and 2004. Pakhtakor currently holds the record in number of consecutive participations in the AFC Champions League, participating in 11 tournaments from 2002 to 2013.